Beyond racial categorizing: The influence of the Spanish bodegon on casta painting.

详细信息   

• 作者：Hughes ; Margaret Lawrence.
• 学历：M.A.
• 年：2011
• 导师：Graciano, Andrew,eadvisorGraciano, Andrewecommittee memberHughes, Carltonecommittee memberCollins, Bradfordecommittee member
• 毕业院校：University of South Carolina
• Department：Art History
• ISBN：9781267319906
• CBH：1509791
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：6772147
• Pages：71

文摘

In this thesis I discuss the influence that the seventeenth-century Sevillian tradition of the bodegó；n, still-lifes that included kitchens, taverns, food and people, had on the development of genre-style casta paintings in New Spain. In setting apart the two types of casta painting within the genre-the register type and the genre type, I offer answers to the questions, &ldquo；what function did the use of the bodegó；n serve within casta painting and what was the purpose of the genre-style paintings beyond cataloguing race?&rdquo； I demonstrate that bodegó；n -style iconography was used to depict the nascent nationalism of the changing mestizaje in New Spain. Additionally, I show that specific bodegó；n-style iconography helped construct a self-portrait of the artists, who were mainly criollo and mestizos, in the same way that Vel&aacute；squez used humble domestic material culture to make a statement about himself. I hope to show that the genre-style casta paintings relied on the bodegó；n tradition to link people, domestic space, and status, and not merely to catalogue the different racial mixes. My focus is primarily on a comparison between Vel&aacute；squez&rsquo；s Kitchen Servant (also known as Kitchen Maid and La Mulata), and José； de P&aacute；ez&rsquo；s version of De Espa&ntilde；ol y negra, mulato. The influence of the bodegó；n on casta painting is ultimately helpful in establishing a realistic, truthful image of the cross-cultural dialogue in colonial Mexico.